What are we watching these days?

[Jclayton92]

I just came across an interesting short series of about 20 something episodes called Mr Inbetween.  It is a dark Australian "comedy" that streams on Hulu but originally ran on FX.  Quirky criminal characters.

It's on my list of what to watch next... I'm still trying to find a good murder mystery whodunit. Death and Other Details is next for me. There is not enough high quality series coming out right now in my opinion.

[AZGiantFan]

It's on my list of what to watch next... I'm still trying to find a good murder mystery whodunit. Death and Other Details is next for me. There is not enough high quality series coming out right now in my opinion.

Here's a sample scene about how Ray improves society:

[Jolly Blue Giant]

For fans of Alfred Hitchcock, 6 films will drop on Netflix on June 1st. They are (ranked from least to most favorite, by Rotten Tomatoes scoring:

6. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Stars: James Stewart, Doris Day, Bernard Miles and Ralph Truman

Plot: Dr. Ben McKenna (Stewart) and his wife (Day) and son are vacationing in Morocco when a stranger is killed in front of them. Before he dies, he reveals an assassination plot to the family. The son is then kidnapped, and the good doctor and his wife must work to get the son back without notifying the police.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 88

5. Frenzy (1972)

Stars: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt and Anna Massey

Plot: A serial killer is on the loose in London. Coincidentally, Richard Blaney (Finch) finds his ex-wife (Leigh-Hunt) murdered. She is killed in the same way as the other murders have occurred. The serial killer strangles his victims with a necktie. As Blaney finds his ex-wife, he immediately comes under suspension and goes into hiding with his best friend. Is the best friend the murderer?

Rotten Tomatoes score: 91

4. Family Plot (1976)

Stars: Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Barbara Harris and William Devane

Plot: Hitchcock's final film follows an iffy psychic (Harris) and her boyfriend (Dern) who are hired by an older woman who wants to find her nephew (Devane), who was given up for adoption. The psychic and boyfriend find the adult nephew, but he has a sordid past. Once he finds out he is being tracked, things go awry.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 92

3. Vertigo (1958)

Stars: James Stewart and Kim Novak

Plot: A detective who has an extreme fear of heights has recently retired after his phobia accidentally helped cause the death of a fellow officer and a young lady the officer was chasing. Stewart's character sees the girl's body double, though, and chaos ensues as the detective is manipulated into madness.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 93

2. The Birds (1963)

Stars: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Suzanne Pleshette and Jessica Tandy

Plot: This one is fairly straightforward but still very creepy. A woman meets a man at a pet store and decides to follow him home. She has two birds as a gift, but then birds soon start attacking children at the man's sister's party. The whole town is soon under attack from the fiends (the birds, not the man and the woman).

Rotten Tomatoes score: 94

1. Rear Window (1954)

Stars: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr and Wendell Corey

Plot: A newspaper photographer (Stewart) has been injured and is stuck in a wheelchair in his apartment that overlooks a common area of his apartment complex and apartments on the other side of that. The photographer believes he sees a murder occur, and with the help of his love interest (Kelly), they try to solve the crime. It might backfire, though.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 98

[LennG]

A decent enough group of films but, by far, not the best of Hitchcock.

[LennG]

Has anyone watched "the Handmaiden Tale"?

We watched episode 1 yesterday.My wife found it depressing, but it has been on for 6 seasons, so some people must like it.

[Jolly Blue Giant]

Has anyone watched "the Handmaiden Tale"?

We watched episode 1 yesterday.My wife found it depressing, but it has been on for 6 seasons, so some people must like it.

I had the same reaction as your wife and never bothered following it after the first episode. But yeah, it has a following

[DaveBrown74]

A decent enough group of films but, by far, not the best of Hitchcock.

My all time favorite Hitchcock movie by far is "Rope." So good. Jimmy Stewart is superb in that.